Life Through Bombardment

Eluvium
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE

Matthew Cooper’s brain must be an interesting place to visit, if for no other reason than its idyllic landscapes. There’s probably a glacier, cracking and collapsing into an ocean not unlike the one he sees out West, where he’s lived for the last decade. There’s a dense, old-growth forest specializing in fractured sunlight, and the occasional thunderheads using lightning bolts like unsteady legs intent on solid footing.

All these scenes coalesce into a seven-LP Box Set, Life Through Bombardment, under Cooper’s moniker, Eluvium. The limited edition 100 copies, two years in production, combine these studio releases into one sonic windfall that emerges and evaporates without a definitive beginning. Cooper’s penchant for synths as atmosphere artfully draws comparisons with the likes of Christian Fennesz and Cooper’s own tourmates, Mono. It’s nice to see a product so patient it hurts.

I'm a Jew who practices Zen Buddhist meditation. In my younger days I attended talks and zhikrs with Sufi teachers like Pir Vilayat Khan and Reshad Field. Rumi, Kabir and Hafiz are among the greatest religious poets I know. Deep gratitude to this publication for reporting on one of the most beautiful, peaceful, passionate and unifying religious visions ever given to us!

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